Setting
Where the shot is filmed.
What is location?
Where a camera focuses on an object, usually only inches away.
What is a close up shot?
A general view of everything from directly above.
What is bird's eye?
Responsible for building and maintaining all equipment that supports cameras.
What is the grip department?
Light, bright, open-looking light that creates warmth & happiness.
What is high-key lighting?
The creation of scenery for a shot.
What is a set design?
Shot from a distance, used to stress the environment.
What is a long shot?
Camera is elevated above the action, but not quite bird's eye.
What is high?
Who is responsible for making sure actors stay true to the script?
What is the script supervisor?
Bold contrast between dark and light.
What is contrast lighting?
What the casting crew may wear.
What are costumes?
Frames the actors, usually from the waist up.
What is a medium shot?
Camera angle that increases the height of smaller objects.
What is low?
Responsible for selecting & placing microphones & maintaining audio equipment.
What is the boom operator?
A quick succession of images or impressions used to express an idea.
What is a montage?
What is used to create a look for an actor based on time periods, setting & style?
What is hair and makeup?
A shot taken when two characters interract face to face.
What is an over the shoulder shot?
When the camera moves up and down or left to right.
What is panning?
Responsible for clothes, costumes, hair & makeup for the cast crew.
What is the wardrobe department?
Darkness and shadows that create a feeling of suspense & suspicion.
What is low-key lighting?
An object actors use on stage during production.
What is a prop?
A shot taken from a great distance.
What is an establishing shot?
When the camera moves along with the scene or movement of the action.
What is tracking?
Who is responsible for recording of a film?
What is a director of photography?
An editing effect demonstrated by a Russian filmmaker in the 1910's and 1920's.
What is the Kuleshov Effect?